In the heart of the history
The legendary Gallo-Roman history of Lugdunum at the top of the Fourvière hill and the splendor of the French Renaissance in the heart of Old Lyon are exhibited in the 5th district of Lyon. A true open-air museum: Saint-Jean cathedral, Saint-Georges churches, Saint-Paul, old cobbled streets, traboules that weave real secret networks. The Gadagne and Lugdunum museums welcome you for a journey through time.
Roman Baths
Dating from the 2nd and 3rd centuries, the baths are located at the back of a building. In this area of Fourvière hill, densely populated during...
Eglise Saint Just
Remains of the foundations of the monumental church of Saint Justus, built at the end of the 4th c., extended and modified in medieval times (12th -...
Eglise Notre Dame du Point du Jour
This church is considered by many as the most beautiful modern church in Lyon. It was built in 1972 to replace the former church in Massues...
Résidence de la Sarra wall painting
3000 m² painted wall holding the record for the biggest trompe-l’oeil in Europe. It shows people from the neighbourhood immortalised in their daily...
Palais Saint Jean
This former archbishop’s palace (13th - 19th), a bishop’s palace, was bought in 1909 to be used for the 5th arrondissement's library. The frontage on...
Cour des Loges wall painting
This 400 m² painted wall was created on a canvassed wall (waterproof). It shows a trompe-l'oeil curtain of a theatre set being raised inside the Cour...
Eglise Sainte Anne de Ménival
One of the last churches built in the Lyon area by the architect Stéphane Curtelin. Modern sacred artistic style. It is part of the “3 Paroisses” with...
Fort Saint Irénée
The fort site still shows signs of its successive occupations; firstly, in Gallo-Roman times, the start point of the Gier aqueduct and the Trion...
Fontaine Saint Jean
The fountain was built from plans by the Lyon-based architect René Dardel, who wanted to reproduce certain details of a well that Philibert de l'Orme...
Fontaine du Taurobole
Located in the Saint Just quarter, the Fontaine du Boeuf, or Taurobole, is the oldest fountain in Lyon. Completed in 1828, it was listed as a...
Palais de Bondy
Built from 1902 to 1904, the “Palais des Expositions" features Lyon’s coat of arms and motto: “avant, avant Lion le melhor”. It has a set of huge...
Basilique de Fourvière observatory tower
Part of the left wing of the basilica, the tower has an orientation table at the top, after 260 steps. At the end of the construction of the basilica,...
Courtyard at 8 Rue Juiverie - Gallery by Philibert Delorme
This inner courtyard features a gallery designed by local architect Philibert Delorme in the sixteenth century. It is a rare example of Italian...
Traboule 42 Montée St Barthélémy - Montée Cardinal Billé
Traboule inside the Lorette house (or the house of Pauline Jaricot)
The Weight of Oneself
Designed by artists Elmgreen & Dragset, the work represents heroic nude and marble. This sculpture, 2.7 m high, is a landmark in the landscape.
Chapels in Notre Dame de Fourvière
The Chapelle de la Vierge and the Chapelle Saint Thomas de Canterbury (archbishop of Canterbury who died a martyr in 1170 and apparently stayed in...
Museum of Puylata
A site museum, as the items discovered during the excavations between 1955 and 1969 are still there. Gallo-Roman equipment, paintings and bronze,...
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